Chapter 243

Mother Sorana.

Her face glowed pale and cruel in the dim light, her eyes like coals under ash.

For a heartbeat, I couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe.

Then something inside me snapped.

I turned toward the mirror, fury tearing through my grief.

“Is this what you want?!” I screamed, my voice raw. “To see him suffer? To see me lose him?! WHY?! Why can’t you see he’s different?!”

The mirror pulsed once —